Still lurking from the wheat fields of Pomeroy, WA, USA. I would love to hear what you read ... what books/movies you would recommend that capture life in Israel right now, etc., ... but really just get a kick out of reading all your stuff!

Keep writing about life's daily ups and downs!! Write about it all: being single (and the quest for the "right" guy), dieting (or not), managing a home (or not), work (most of us also have "boring" jobs), etc.

Your blog is so much fun, and you write so candidly!! We love laughing WITH you!! (OK, so some people are probably laughing AT you, but they are just jealous!!)

I have been lurking from Los Alamos, NM, USA for about a year. Actually, it's your writing about politics (broadly defined) that I enjoy the most. Your blog on the day of the Israeli elections was really excellent.

New to My Shrapnel? Start at the beginning:

About Me

Message from the Bombing Victim Muppet

I am, of course, neither sad, nor heroic nor particularly victimized. What I am is an "ordinary Joe" who was seriously injured six years ago in a suicide bombing while waiting for a bus at the Machane Yehuda open air market in Jerusalem.

Ever since I learned how to write, writing has served as a sort of therapy for me. In the months and years after the bombing, I did an enormous amount of writing. What I was thinking. What I was feeling. How the world reacted to me. How my bombed-out self reacted to the world. Some of the articles were sent to friends and relatives via email lists. Many more of them just sat on my computer. I always meant to do something with them.

Of course, I never got around to it.

This year, I promised myself that I would, at last do something. And since blogging is the best way to do something without having to do all that much (no publishers, no rejections, no work apart from editing), I decided that this was the way to go.

Please comment. I am putting these out so that people will read them. Let me know that you are reading.